User talk:TBP25

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 00:53, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Cropping images

By way of information for the future, when you want to crop an image, as you did for File:-BLMcareers (21678771368) crop.jpg, I suggest you use the CropTool that can be activated in your commons Preferences, under Gadgets. The CropTool will then appears in the left side of your screen. It saves everyone a lot of time because it transfers all the correct and appropriate information into the cropped image, such as source, license, author, etc. It even leaves a backlink to the original and visa versa so long as the original has been positively reviewed. That way all the proper information is there and does not usually need to be manually reviewed again. If you are just cropping a small bit of the image like a frame you can decide to overwrite the original image but for more major crops you should upload the cropped version as a separate new image, but you have a choice. I hope you can see how everyone can save time by using CropTool. I also added the correct BLM copyright tag to the image as this a US government work. Good luck. Ww2censor (talk) 14:23, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I don't expect to do much image editing in the near future, but this will be a handy reference if it comes up again! ;) I'm trying out the image as the lead one in the surveying article.

I have to say that while there is a lot of information available in the help, I found it very hard to find all the relevant bits. I spent a lot longer trying to look up the correct way to do the metadata you mention, than I did editing the image. The tool you mentioned which would have been very helpful, but unfortunately if there was any reference to it in the help pages I missed it. TBP25 (talk) 00:35, 29 May 2018 (UTC)